14 DECEMBER 1850, Page 8

Miss Dolby, as is her wont at this .season s has

given three subscription soirees at her own residence ; the last of them on Tuesday. They have drawn crowded audiences, and have been not only, elegant and agreeable to the, amateur, but well calculated to cultivate the taste and enlarge the. ideas of the numerous young ladies among the listeners.. At each of them, there ha.ve been stringed-instrument quartets and pianoforte trios of the great masters, played by our very best performers ; and the vocal pieces, of a high and classical order, chiefly selected from Handel, Cherubini, Gluck, ISfozart, Mendelssohn &e., have been well sung; Miss Dolby herself, of course, taking a large place in this branch of the performance.